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TY - CHAP
T1 - Recording Murder
T2 - Videos depicting homicide and the law?
AU - Gillespie, Alisdair Allan
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Homicide in Criminal Law on 6/9/2018, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Homicide-in-Criminal-Law-A-Research-Companion/Reed-Bohlander/p/book/9781138498419
PY - 2018/9/6
Y1 - 2018/9/6
N2 - The folk-lore of the 'snuff video' (a video showing the killing of a person for the purposes of sexual gratification) has existed for many years, but without proof of their existence. However, digital communication technologies mean that it is easier than ever to record footage of a murder and post it online. This has happened in a small number of occasions and it poses challenges for the criminal law. Should the recording of a murder be illegal? What about its dissemination? If such footage is to be prohibited, on what basis? This chapter considers these issues and identifies what the current approach of the law in England & Wales is to such behaviour.
AB - The folk-lore of the 'snuff video' (a video showing the killing of a person for the purposes of sexual gratification) has existed for many years, but without proof of their existence. However, digital communication technologies mean that it is easier than ever to record footage of a murder and post it online. This has happened in a small number of occasions and it poses challenges for the criminal law. Should the recording of a murder be illegal? What about its dissemination? If such footage is to be prohibited, on what basis? This chapter considers these issues and identifies what the current approach of the law in England & Wales is to such behaviour.
KW - murder
KW - recording
KW - obscenity
KW - offense principle
KW - terrorism
U2 - 10.4324/9781351016315
DO - 10.4324/9781351016315
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781138498419
T3 - Substantive issues in Criminal Law
SP - 174
EP - 192
BT - Homicide in Criminal Law
A2 - Reed, Alan
A2 - Bohlander, Michael
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -